The Stack Overflow for Teams plugins for Backstage integrate your private knowledge solution with your Backstage instance. These plugins provide seamless access to Stack Overflow Teams' most relevant data, allowing you to display the top users, top tags, and top questions directly within Backstage. Additionally, it indexes all the questions from a Stack Overflow instance and integrates them into Backstage search, providing enhanced discoverability.
These plugins also allow you to securely create Stack Overflow for Teams questions from Backstage itself.
Displays the top users and tags from your Stack Overflow instance, giving you insights into the most active contributors and trending topics.
Retrieves all the questions from your Stack Overflow instance and indexes them into Backstage search. This makes it easier to search and discover questions across your organization.
A centralized hub within Backstage that showcases the top questions. The hub also allows you to filter questions like you would on Stack Overflow.
One of the most exciting features of this plugin is the ability to securely create questions on your Stack Overflow instance directly from Backstage using OAuth. The authentication process is secure, ensuring that only authorized users can post questions, and it is designed to seamlessly integrate with Backstage.
Follow these steps to install and run the plugin locally:
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Clone the repository
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Navigate into the project directory:
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Install dependencies:
yarn install
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The installation will scaffold the Backstage application and include the necessary plugins.
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The plugins this project aims to develop are located in the
/pluginsfolder. Changes to the code will usually trigger a hot reload. If not, you can restart the Backstage application. -
To start the Backstage application, run:
yarn dev
Feel free to fork this repository and submit pull requests. Contributions, suggestions, and bug reports are welcome!